Category Archives: Reviews

Bluebee Pals Teaching Essential Skills

Bluebee Pals Teaching Essential Skills The founder of Bluebee Pals, Laura Jiencke, donated an entire Family Pack of the Interactive Educational Plush Learning tools and three iPads to the Southampton Day Care Center (SDCC) in Southampton, NY. As many of you know the Bluebee Pals connect to any Apple or IOS Device and pair with most…

10 Apps to Enhance Classroom Learning In this golden age of educational apps, technology has transformed the classroom. No one can deny the fact that these electronic gadgets offer unique learning opportunities to students from greater classroom engagement to an extensive learning environment outside the school. Recently the majority of the schools have continued to…

Bluebee Pals and Social Emotional Learning

The Every School Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA) is a federal law that calls for a well-rounded (whole child) education and a shifting away from the narrow focus on academics. Under ESSA, teachers go beyond academics to cultivate positive student attitudes, values, and habits. Inter- and intra-personal (or, “social and emotional”) competencies include attitudes and…

Thinkrolls Space by Avokiddo Wow! A galaxy of fun awaits you with the newest addition to the popular Thinkrolls app family! In keeping with the style of Thinkrolls 1 and 2, and Thinkrolls: Kings and Queens, Avokiddo has now lovingly created an amazingly fun and addictive puzzle adventure in outer space! Thinkrolls Space, for ages 5+,…

SUMMER Continuing Education ~ 6 Apps to Activate the Love of Learning Even if you don't know it by name, you're probably familiar with the "summer slide" by reputation. This is the term used to describe the two- to three-month "regression" that students tend to experience over the summer months — especially in their reading and mathematics skills.…

These apps will teach your kid to code The latest studies report that nearly 58,000,000 jobs that require programming knowledge will appear in the world in 10 years. We have fewer warehouse workers and more engineers. Machines can do more monotonous jobs leaving people to put more thoughts and energy into creative and exciting tasks. The 21st…

Recently I had the opportunity to work with Laura Jienke, founder of the brilliant Bluebee Pals in a preschool in Naples, FL - we had a blast! The teacher had been celebrating Dr. Suess's Bday & NEA's Read Across America the nationwide reading celebration that takes place the whole month of March. When Laura asked…

Lipa Land ~ Preschool Fundamentals Lipa Land, the latest app from Lipa Learning, is a robust and comprehensive collection featuring fundamental preschool skills that are engaging, educational, and of course FUN! This app is based on the Lipa Curriculum encompassing the "whole child approach", which contains the components for a healthy, safe, engaged,…